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Jorie Graham

"I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession."

-- Jorie Graham

#Philosophical Quotes #Moving Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.”
“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”
“I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!”

Source : "Fictional character: Rick". "The Young Ones" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1982–1984.
“Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.”
“I don't throw things or yell.”
“And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
“I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.”
“As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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